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23 hours agoUSC lands third 5-star for 2026 in forward Sara Okeke
Sara Okeke, a Spanish five-star prospect, committed to USC, making them the No. 1 ranked recruiting class for 2026 with three five-star recruits.
UTSA has a +29 scoring differential, putting up 60.3 points per game (285th in college basketball) and allowing 59.3 (56th in college basketball). The Roadrunners' leading scorer, Cheyenne Rowe, ranks 277th in the country scoring 13.8 points per game.
UT Rio Grande Valley enters this contest following a 72-64 victory against Incarnate Word. The Vaqueros' leading scorer was Jalayah Ingram, who finished with 31 points, eight rebounds and five assists. Led by Vernell Atamah (19 PTS, 70 FG%, 4-5 from 3PT) and Nya Valentine (17 PTS, 42.86 FG%), Northwestern State ended their last matchup winning 69-56 against East Texas A&M.
Southern Indiana has a +321 scoring differential, topping opponents by 11.1 points per game. It is putting up 69.4 points per game to rank 117th in college basketball and is giving up 58.3 per outing to rank 37th in college basketball.
WHEN MEGAN GRANT sits in the front row of her Intro to Gender Studies class at UCLA, she's enjoying the only rest she'll get all day. It's game day for the UCLA women's basketball team. Grant has 10 hours until she'll take the court for the Bruins. But before putting on her basketball jersey, the UCLA dual athlete will have weight training, class and softball practice. The senior softball star has a career .727 slugging percentage, .978 fielding percentage and earned the Big Ten single-season record for home runs with 26 in 2025.
If you thought Sprite was just sitting on the sidelines, think again. The iconic beverage brand is making a major statement in the basketball world with a brand-new collection of limited-edition cans that celebrate both NBA teams and the rising stars of Unrivaled women's basketball. This isn't just another marketing play: it's a full-court press that honors local fandom, basketball culture, and the athletes pushing the game forward.
"The impact that the Tempo is going to have on women's basketball is going to be exponential," Toronto team president Teresa Resch told ESPN. "I think you can look at what happened with the Raptors 30 years ago. The 'Vince Carter effect.' You hear those kids talk about -- they're not kids anymore, they're very talented young men playing basketball and representing our country really well on the international stage -- the representation is huge. The fact that you can see it, you can be it."
There's no question that women's basketball is growing nicely, a development that we should all cheer: this year's WNBA season was the most watched ever. But it is testing credulity to suggest that the sport is growing at anything like the same speed as AI, which since 2022 has gone from the technological margins to the very center of the US economy: by some reports, AI spending accounted for half of the growth in US GDP in the first half of this year.
"I know I'll go down in history. I'll look back in 20 years and be like: 'Yeah, the reason why we're watching women's basketball isn't just because of one person. It's because of me, too,' she said about her rivalry narrative with Caitlin Clark."